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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Foundations and Charters

The controversy over the role of foundation funding in the DC teacher contract is a reminder that in addition to whatever ideological biases drive foundations to promote the charter school approach, there is also a pragmatic, functional bias in favor of working with charters. They are simply easier for foundations to work with. That's not a good reason to shape public policy to favor charters, however.